Published: March 12, 2017

Professor and Chair of the Department of Linguistics, Andy Cowell, is one of the founders of the new听,听a destination for interdisciplinary origins studies. Professor Cowell was quoted in CU Boulder Today about a听talk he gave connecting Polynesian and Arapaho origin narratives to actual theories coming out of anthropology, archeology, and the sciences:听鈥淚f you take these stories literally,鈥 Cowell says, 鈥渢hey don鈥檛 necessarily fit well with scientific data. But in a more sophisticated, metaphorical way, they often broadly overlap with scientific views of how origins come about.鈥

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